If you really listen…
The course descriptions are here for the 2006 NHC Summer Institute!!! The Institute (August 7-13, 2006, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge NH) is a week of multigenerational nondenominational Jewish learning where every teacher is a student and every student is a teacher. This is a fantastic set of teachers and courses:
Morning
- Andrea Hodos: Moving Torah: Seeing the Voices
- Bob Freedman: Ein Torah b’li Havurah: an Introduction to Havurah Judaism
- Harold Gorvine: Palestine 1948: Independence and Catastrophe
- Jeremy Kalmanofsky: Ramban’s Wisdom
- Benj Kamm: Prayer in Judaism and Islam
- Ronnie Levin: Men, Women, and Sex in the Talmud
- Stuart Mangel: Re-examining Our Roots: A Contemporary Look at the Development of Monotheism, 1500-500 BCE
- Bernice Heilbrunn Potvin: Jewish Germans: A Glorious History
- Regina L. Sandler-Phillips: Who Knows Four? I Know Six! Listening to Our Silent Matriarchs
- Jonah Steinberg: The Divine Voice in Human Hearing (and Doing)
- Ilana Streit: Exploring, Renewing, and Keeping Shabbat
- Philip Terman: Writing and Listening to Jewish Poetry
Afternoon
- Kathy Hart: We are the People of the Book: Creating a One-of-a-Kind Book
- Joseph Berman: Listening to Palestinian Voices: Hearing Palestinian Narratives
- Adam Gordon: A Neighborhood to Pray In: Where American Jews Live and Why
- Sue Gulack: Listening with Our Eyes, Praying with our Hands: Sign Language Prayer
- Marga Hirsch: Lishmoa Kol Shofar: Hearing the Shofar
- Stephanie Wellen Levine: Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls
- Neil Litt: Not In Heaven: When God is Silent, To Whom Do We Listen?
- Louis Rieser: A Taste of Zohar: Teachings on the Days of Awe
- Brent Chaim Spodek: Jewish Ethics in an Age of Global Commerce and Conflict
- Michael (Plotnik) Tayvah: Western (Portuguese) Sefardi Judaism: a Model for Contemporary Post-denominational Jews?
- Miriam-Simma Walfish: Reading the Talmud as Shakespeare: Literary Approaches to Talmudic Stories
- Melissa Weintraub: Milhamot Hashem? Jewish Conceptions of War Ethics
Registration for the Institute will open in the next few weeks.
[...] This year’s courses range from “Men, Women, and Sex in the Talmud” to “Prayer in Judaism and Islam” to “Jewish Conceptions of War Ethics” to “Reading the Talmud as Shakespeare”. See the full list of courses! The Institute will also feature special workshops on Friday and Saturday with Ruth Messinger of American Jewish World Service, and community-wide arts programs with our Poretsky Artists-in-Residence, visual artist Kathy Hart and dancer Andrea Hodos. Every day there is a wide range of traditional and creative prayer options. The NHC is based on the idea that every teacher is a student and every student is a teacher, so in addition to the full-week courses, any participant can offer a workshop on any topic. [...]
—Jewschool » Blog Archive » Live free or die · April 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
[...] We’ve blogged a bit about the Institute already — it’s a chance for independent grassroots Jewish communities to get together for a week of Jewish learning and living — and a bunch of you are coming already. But we know that not everyone can get away from work/life/etc. for an entire week. Therefore, there is also an option of coming just for Shabbat. For those who can’t afford the full price, we’re very excited to announce that significant discounts are now available for Shabbat if there is financial need. Email institute {at} havurah(.)org with any questions. [...]
—Jewschool » Blog Archive » Rocking Klezmer Music, Financial Aid, Snazzy T-shirts, Ruth Messinger, and the Best Shabbat You’ve Ever Spent in New Hampshire · July 17th, 2006 at 12:21 am